AJEROMI IFELODUN LOCAL GOVERNMENT, LAGOS STATE.

AKERE MARKET FIRE INCIDENT: AN APPEAL FOR CALM.

We have received with sadness the unfortunate incident at the Spare Parts Market, Akere in Olodi-Apapa, that was engulfed by an inferno in the wee hours of Wednesday, March 8, 2023. The immediate cause of the fire disaster is still to be established.

The Chairman of the Council, Hon. Fatai Ayoola was among the early callers to the scene after rushing to see for himself the extent of the damage as soon as he got wind of the incident. While at the scene,

My name is Kelechi Obijiaku, an Igbo from Imo State; Assistant Director in the Lagos State Civil Service and the Legal Adviser of the Lagos State Public Procurement Agency.

In 1996, following my emergence as the winner of an international competition, I was awarded a scholarship by the Lagos State government that covered tuition for the rest of my secondary education and my university education.

Sometime in 2005, after the completion of my LLB degree from the Lagos State University, I had issues getting on the list for Law School. At this

INITIATIVES FOR YOUTH BY THE BUHARI ADMINISTRATION!

👉N-Power: 500,000 enrolled in 2 batches between 2016 and 2020 receiving 30,000 monthly, with enrolment of 3rd & 4th Batches.

👉NYSC Monthly Allowance increased from N19,600 to N33,000; more than 300,000 beneficiaries monthly. 👉75 billion Naira Nigeria Youth Investment Fund (NYIF), for businesses owned by young Nigerians aged between 18 and 35: cbn.gov.ng…/NYIF%20implementation…

👉Special Public Works Programme to provide 3-month employment to 774,000 young Nigerians across the

I know a lot of people have forgotten about this Program. The FG is now commencing the Project Technical Maximum (T-Max) a Technical & Vocational Education Training Program to train 15,000 Nigerian young people between 15-35 years across seven-pilot states - Enugu, Edo, Gombe, Kaduna, Ogun, Lagos and Nasarawa for free. Skills are ICT, Automobile, Furniture Works, Welding & Fabrication, Plumbing & Fittings, Tiling & Interlocking, Electrical Installation, Solar Installation & Maintenance, Air Conditioning & Refrigeration Repairs, Photography &

TUNJI BELLO'S REPLY TO A COMMENT ON A COMMUNITY WHATSAPP GROUP:

Oga Tony,

I don’t dabble into various political duels going on on this platform as everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion. But we must learn to seperate political hatred or propangada from facts. Your response to Gov Sanwo-Olu’s interview was totally inaccurate and out of point particularly as it relates to Tinubu.

Asiwaju Tinubu designed 7 rail lines for Lagos State in 2005 and I was a member of his cabinet as well as a member of the committee that designed it including the

Pitiful ASUU chairman went to opposition television, AIT to aver that students should vote out the government over strike. The government we have is outgoing, awaiting to usher in a successor next year so which government should be voted out? Okay, let's even assume they meant APC should be voted out, which party then deserves to be voted in? Is it PDP with an unwanted pedigree in strikes that despite stable global economy and oil boom in Nigeria, failed to accede to their demands between 1999-2015? Or is it Pitobi whose tenure as governor saw Anambra

ARE THE AGITATORS OF "RESTRUCTURING" ON LEAVE OR ON A TRIP TO A CAVE WITHOUT NEWS NETWORK?

A couple of days ago, all the State Governors came out openly to reject President Muhammadu Buhari's Executive Order 10 that gave State Assemblies, Judiciaries and Local Governments financial autonomies. But curiously and mysteriously, no one nor any noisy group from any or all of the states with heavy populations of noisemakers for the restructuring of Nigeria raised an eyebrow over the rejection of these autonomies by their Governors. Even "human rights"

BETWEEN TINUBU, SULE AND AL-MAKURA

On Monday, March 29, 2021, the Al-makura support group, advocating for the emergence of APC Senator Tanko Umaru Al-makura of Nasarawa South as National Chairman of the APC, appointed Al-makura's successor in office, Gov Abdullahi Sule as its sole patron, to help advance its course. The Gov pledged to work towards actualizing the ambition. He said the ANPP has had its share of holding that office in John Odigie-Oyegun while the ACN too has took a turn in Adams Oshiomhole so the CPC bloc is the only major party left

An APC House of Representatives Member, representing Ekiti Central Federal Constituency 1, Sola Steve Fatoba, has empowered his Constituents with several items, cash just as he commissioned the following projects in his Constituency:

👉Block of classrooms at AUD Secondary School, Ado-Ekiti.
👉Block of 6 classrooms at Ado Grammar School, Ado-Ekiti
👉ICT centre at Christ's School, Ado-Ekiti
👉ICT centre at All Soul's Anglican Secondary school, Ado-Ekiti
👉ICT centre at Ado Community Grammar School
👉Health centre at Fajuyi Estate (Irewolede),

BUHARI THE MAGICIAN!

* While PDP people are missing foreign rice, and wailing daily that people are dying of hunger without showing us the corpses, rice pyramids are increasingly springing up in Kebbi and Gombe states, all confirming Buhari's position that we can grow what we can eat!

* While PDP people will prefer that those rice pyramids should spring up in Thailand, Malaysia, USA, China, Singapore, etc, but not in Nigeria, and that billions of dollars should be expended in importing them to Nigeria thus making those foreign rice farmers smile to

MY FINAL TAKE ON THE BIGOTRY AGAINST THE HIJAAB!

I laughed heartily when I read a newspaper report about how some White Garment (Cherubim and Seraphim) church members wore their white Hijaab garments and joined the unfortunate protest (riots) against the wearing of Hijaab by Muslim female students and pupils in public funded schools in Kwara state. I wondered whether they didn't know or realize that the white garments they proudly wear to their churches each worship day is Hijaab or not. Actually, their garment is patterned after a verse of

BEFORE HIJAAB CAUSES ANOTHER CIVIL WAR....

Someone said to me, "But the Hijaab is an Islamic identity!", then I asked him, "What then is the Christian identity?" I've been waiting for the answer since then till now. But that's besides the point I want to make here.

The point I want to make is this: If you have no problem riding in a taxi or bus or keke or train or an aeroplane with people wearing Hijaab or gowns or Indian saris or any such dressing, then I can't see why you should have a problem with female students or pupils wearing the Hijaab in the

WAILERS' CONFUSED STATE OF MIND!

When Dele Momodu tweeted a fake news that Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala had been disqualified from the WTO race in July, Wailing Wailers started insulting Buhari and called him a bad luck. But after she won it, they ignorantly attributed the success to her qualification alone.

Our premier university was rated among 500 best in the world and Wailers said the accolades should not go to the Visitor but we saw some PDP members praising Seyi Makinde for the feat, who has no connection whatsoever with the institution.

Nigerians

💥 FLASH: The Civilian JTF youth nabbed six wanted criminals at the early hours of today; items recovered include one local pistol, Plasma tv and some vital information. They also gave names of their fellow syndicates.

We appreciate the timely arrival of the Navy OP-MESA and the Ajeromi Police team that went with the JTF to get the other fleeing criminal gang members and did a professional cordon and search operation in their houses. However, one of the suspects, who is the son of a senior police officer, escaped. The community leaders have asked

WILL NIGERIANS EVER BE CONSISTENT?

They hear or see something they like, they immediately embrace it without minding the legality or constitutionality of it. Since they like it, every other thing doesn't matter, they want to see it happen the next day. They see or hear something they don't like, even when it's legal or Constitutional, they then begin to ask questions. They come up with different rhetorics that it's political, pre-planned and a witch-hunt, if it is against someone they like or support.

I've seen this inconsistency in a lot of

CAN THIS CULTURE END IN THE SOUTH?

President Buhari was committed to the Ogoni land clean-up in Rivers state and gave the Environment Ministry a mandate to ensure it is done. The Ministers had to negotiate their way before the remediation could begin, which took months before they could agree on the amount of royalty to be paid to the community before you could start a project that will help them.

An APC House of Representatives Member from Ibadan sent two transformers to a community under his Constituency who had no light and paid for the

BUHARI'S QUIET REVOLUTION AT OUR UNIVERSITIES AND WHY CROOKS SAY NIGERIA IS NO LONGER WORKING!

Anyone closely monitoring the news since the advent of the Buhari administration will not have missed the reports of the administration's injection of funds in the provision of independent power plants for each of the country's federal universities as well as internal road networks, water supply schemes, and many other infrastructure aimed at enhancing the status and quality of our universities. Mind you, all of these were done (and are still being

NIGERIANS ARE UNSERIOUS

👉The FG proposed the NLTP (RUGA) in 2019 as a lasting recipe to curb the age-old farmers/herders crisis but Nigerians rejected it.
👉A senator from Niger state proposed an anti-hate speech bill in 2019 to check inflammatory comments that could cause ethnic clashes but Nigerians rejected it.
👉Still in 2019, another Niger senator proposed an anti-Social Media bill that could have checked the rising spate of online Fake News.

From the above, any sane mind can deduce or conclude that the solutions to some of the serious

THIS IS HOW BIGOTRY AND HATE WORK!

Realizing that they were of the same religion, South Sudanese people fought for "freedom" and broke away from the "oppression and domination of Sudan's Muslim North". After that, they realized that they were of different tribes, and then they plunged themselves into tribals wars, with some areas even fighting each other based on street differences in spite of being of the same tribe and religion. The guns and other weapons they used in fighting for "freedom" from the Muslim North were the very weapons they turned on

THE NAUSEATING HYPOCRISY OF MAN!

👉Man claims to hate apartheid, and even holds protest marches and seeks all manner of sanctions against its perpetrators, yet the same man engages in xenophobia.

👉Man claims to hate xenophobia, and even holds protest rallies and organizes all manner of seminars and workshops against it, yet the same man engages in rabid tribalism and ethnic profiling.

👉Man claims to hate tribalism, and even wails, laments and complains when others treat him with tribal disdain or contempt, yet the same man engages in religious

President Obasanjo vs Primate Akinola

I remember in September 2005 when Mike Adenuga buried his mother in Ijebu Igbo, Ogun state. A scuffle happened. The priest, Primate of the Anglican Communion Church, Peter Jasper Akinola, while delivering his sermon, turned to the President, Olusegun Obasanjo. "I'm happy the President is here. I wish to state that things are bad. I drove from Abuja down here. The roads are bad. I know you don't know because you fly. Please do something about it."

When it was time for the President to eulogize the late